NP - Stem Cell Fumble

[wood jim]

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We've been sliding down this slope since DNA was
> discovered.  It's too  late 
> to stop it now.  Much evil can and probably will be
> done, but what we're 
> aiming for is the good.  The evil is autonomous and
> will continue with or 
> without us.


I tend to look at these issues not as matters of
discovery or science, but technology. And, from the 
Greeks, I understad that technological problems are
problems for moral philosophy. I know it's stupid, but

I agree with Nancy Reagan on this, well, not really,
but we have to find a moral position from whcih we can
just say no. Once the technology enters the culture it
will evolve and no one, not the techno/political
elite, 
masters of information not knowledge, not even god, if
she exists, or nature, miss scatter brains her own
self, can say how. When you introduce earth worms to
an environment where they were not, you don't get the
old environment plus the worms, you get a can of worms
or a new  environment. This can and often does work to
human advantage, sometimes even to the advantage of
other species, but there are alwasy winners and losers
and we simply cannot ALWAYS know or predict with
information who or what they will be with any degree
of certainty or moral certitude. 

Think about the alphabet as technology. Good
arguments, retrospectively, can be made, that the
alphabet is 
a benificial technology. But, as we have just read GR,
we know that it was not benificial to all. But my
point is, the time to decide if a technology is
morally 
something we want, is before it the can of worms is
opened. 

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